Tonights programme comes at an interesting time actually because look
what I read this morning
(I've since posted it on our fb page if anyone wants to comment / share out from there.)
The photo in the article was snapped only last Thursday
.
“Ice is melting in unprecedented ways as summer approaches in the Arctic. In recent days, observations have revealed a record-challenging melt event over the Greenland ice sheet, while the extent of ice over the Arctic Ocean has never been this low in mid-June during the age of weather satellites. Greenland saw temperatures soar up to 40 degrees above normal Wednesday, while open water exists in places north of Alaska where it seldom, if ever, has in recent times.
It’s “another series of extreme events consistent with the long-term trend of a warming, changing Arctic,” said Zachary Labe, a climate researcher at the University of California at Irvine.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...=.61431cf4978b
And while we're at it, how about we re-live this famous Q&A 2016 segment where an exasperated Brian Cox ended up throwing his climate change graphs at Malcolm Roberts
. (8 mins).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3T...I-rfScDZavQm3g